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Startups.RIP
Rebuild 1,738+ dead YC startups with AI
194 followers
Rebuild 1,738+ dead YC startups with AI
194 followers
Startups often fail because of timing, not ideas. Startups.RIP is a wiki of 1,700+ YC startups that shut down or got acquired. Our AI research agent writes a detailed post-mortem (what they built, why they failed, what's changed since) and a rebuild playbook with implementation-ready technical specs you can drop straight into your AI coding agent. Every failed startup is a validated market with unfinished business. Shortcut the idea maze. Start with what almost worked.
Cyris
I always loved browsing this site before I even launched my first product. Absolute gold mine for when you have founders-block
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@krishnam_goel So glad it helped! If your next project is inspired in part or whole by the ideas on Startups.RIP, please let me know! We'd love to feature you 😁
Cyris
Startups.RIP
@krishnam_goel that amazing! learning from the prior attempts at solving the same / similar problem will save you a bunch of headache down the road. congrats on your launch 🎉
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Some of them might work if the product + strategy were done properly.
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@busmark_w_nika I think so too! Many people take away the wrong lessons from startups lessons "oh that has been tried before & didn't work" when in reality markets evolve, consumer behaviours evolve, the underlying tech & infra evolves, etc. not to mention the team's execution, of course.
lol at Delve being the first featured company hahaha. This is cool to see though. Love that it does so much of the heavy lifting... it's not an aggregated graveyard, more like a treasure trove + AI planning so you can avoid any pitfalls
Startups.RIP
@chris_u_han thx for the kind words! "treasure trove" is a great way to put it, I hope Startups.RIP can inspire people who are looking for their project to tackle!
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Hah I love that delve is at the top of the list. RIP indeed..
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also wow i just went into the details page, i didnt realize how thorough these are! https://startups.rip/company/delve, very impressive, include references at the end. damn.
Startups.RIP
@catt_marroll Thanks for checking it out! We designed out Deep Research agent to pull from many sources & ground factual claims to get the full picture about a company. That's easy for notable companies covered by media outlets, but for some older & more obscure ones, it has to pull from old tweets, blog posts, YT videos, etc. Each report takes ~20 minutes to generate, with most of that time on research. It's still not perfect and we'll continue to improve the research & report generation pipeline based on user feedback :)